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Like a Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone #1227 (29 Jan 2015) Read More Rolling Stone Hitting newsstand this week is Rolling Stone #1200 (cover date of January 16th), featuring a rather lengthy story about how The Beatles took over America as the biggest band in the country in 1964. The article, written by Mikal Gilmore ...

I don't have a Rolling Stone subscription anymore, but I did randomly pick up the latest issue, featuring Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac. You can actually read some of the interview online.

Excerpt:

Rock goddess Stevie Nicks – maker of myths, wearer of shawls – appears solo on the cover of Rolling Stone for the first time since 1981 in our new issue, hitting stands Friday. The intimate, 7,000-word cover feature by senior writer Brian Hiatt digs deep into Nicks' life and career, from the endless drama of her relationship with Lindsey Buckingham (backstage at a Fleetwood Mac show in December, he bangs on Nicks' wall to get her to turn her music down) to her decades-long band-crush on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ("Had Tom Petty called me up one day and said, ‘If you want to leave Fleetwood Mac to be in the Heartbreakers, there's a place for you,' I might well have done it. Anytime! Today!")

In other Rolling Stone news, all five decades of archived Rolling Stone magazines are available on Google Play Newsstand... FOR FREE.

Description:

For the first time ever, Rolling Stone has opened up their vast archive of award-winning music, political and cultural reporting — dating back five decades, to their 1967 launch — online for free. In collaboration with Google Play, articles by notable writers including Hunter S. Thompson, Cameron Crowe and Matt Taibbi are now available to read on Android and iOS phones and tablets via the Google Play Newsstand, Google's news reader app optimized for phones and tablets. Additionally, Rolling Stone's daily coverage of music, politics, movies, TV, sports and culture is available on the Play Newsstand.

If you don't have an Android or iOS device, you can actually access the content via Rolling Stone's CoverWall, via rollingstone.com/coverwall. Before you get too excited about this (at least on CoverWall as I have not tested this on my iPad), not all the articles are available for access. Some issues only have one or two articles (and not necessary the main cover article). Still, it is kind of fun to take a look at old magazine covers.

If the cover reflects America's music and pop culture, then I'll have to apologize for the year 2010 for all the sex covers!

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Zinio

Read More Rolling Stone Continuing on with my magazine coverage, we have the biggest US "music" magazine: Rolling Stone. Although the magazine had its origin in news and music …

I've had my Zinio account since I had an iPad. This was one of the first apps for digital magazines that I had any interest in.

Don't get me wrong, I'm with you on preferring glossy paper magazines. The fact is, a typical magazine is too expensive and over time you are forced to toss them out. I've done it; I had to throw away four years of magazines when I moved recently.

The digital version offers these benefits: it's usually cheaper (sure, not much, but it'll add up over time) and you get to keep the magazines in your lifetime. Ten years in the future, assuming Zinio will be around, you can still access those magazines you purchased and take a trip down memory lane!

So, why should you use Zinio over, say Apple's Newsstand, you ask? The simple answer is if you decide to use Android or your PC, you can't view those magazines because it only exists on the iOS world. With Zinio, I can read it mostly anywhere, such as Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows 8 smartphones, tablets, laptops and home computers.

How about Zinio over, say, Spin Magazine's flashy app? You do not need an active internet connection to access the magazine you've already downloaded. Once you downloaded the magazine, you can go airplane mode and enjoy it offline. That's not the case with Spin's application, which is one of the reasons why I left this subscription. Ironically, I did notice that Spin is offered on Zinio's service.

ROLLING STONE (Jun 2013)

So I recently downloaded the latest (well last month) issue of Rolling Stone Magazine. It was fast, I was able to start reading right away (it was downloading as I was reading the first pages). On the iPad app, Zinio offers "Text" version of the same article. Not all articles had a Text version, so it's inconsistent, but I reckon this has more to do with the magazine company providing the plain text with their magazine.

The other thing that I liked was the "text only" contents, which clearly display the main features and articles. Pressing the title will automatically take you to the corresponding pages.

Reading the magazine was a pleasure, with crisp images and clean text. As display gets better, I believe it will eventually replace paper versions… even though I'm still not quite ready to let go. If you haven't tried out Zinio, give it a chance. Take a test spin via their free articles section.

Incidentally, if you want to invest in the all-digital format, this may be the way to go: Zinio's Z-Pass. For $5 a month ($60 a year, cheaper than Netflix), you can get three magazines a month. You can pick and choose titles month to month, or you can stick with the subscription model. For magazine lovers who still can't get enough, you can add additional titles for $1.50 each. As of this writing, only about 300 titles are being offered, but I believe they are the more popular titles anyway, so you shouldn't have a problem picking the right titles based on your interests.

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World tour, media whore, please the press in Belgium

Are you a diehard Smiths fan? This month you're going broke with all these magazines featuring Morrissey or Johnny Marr on its covers.

NME
www.nme.com

Go, Johnny, Go! Sure, as Johnny Marr readies for his upcoming USA 2013 tour, he wins this year's NME's Godlike Genius Award. No big deal, just another day in the Marr universe.

Johnny Marr is on the cover of the latest print edition of NME (16 Feb 2013), the magazine is on newsstand in the UK now.

You can preview the issue on issuu.com

NME describes the issue as:

Johnny Marr: Ultimate Guitar Hero - Inside This Week's Magazine
This year's Godlike Genius Award goes to the man whose guitar skills redefined indie music forever. Full interview with Marr himself where he reflects on his entire career, looks to the future, has a pop at the government and settles the score on The Smiths reunion rumours, for now...

Thanks to @bentcousin.

LOADED
loaded.co.uk

Loaded's latest issue (March 2013) featured Johnny Marr, but their February 2013 clearly shows Morrissey's head under a naked woman on its cover. As I have previously mentioned, this is a lad's mag.

Here is how Loaded describe the Feb issue:

This issue loaded celebrates legends: the men and women who are so astonishingly damn good that they rise beyond the usual dross to become proper icons. We talk hell raising with Arnie, music with Morrissey, rom coms with Gerard Butler and punch ups with Britain’s best heavyweight, David Haye. But if all this excellence is too much for you, we speak to the man who holds the world record the most world records (yes really) and crown Alan Partridge’s PA Lynn as our Greatest Living Englishman. We also get to see Floyd Mayweather’s Mrs wearing very little and get warm and cosy with the stunning Sabine. Only in loaded issue 228, on sale now.

MOJO
mojo4music.com

In Mojo's previous magazine (cover date: February 2013), Johnny Marr is on its cover - along with a special CD called "Marr and Friends". Over the years of buying import magazines, my favorite has always been Select… but after their death, I've really come around to really loving Mojo.

Excerpt of the issue's description:

In this issue

FREE CD! MARR AND FRIENDS: A celebration of Johnny’s genius by Edwyn Collins, John Frusciante, Sandie Shaw, Beth Orton, The Cribs, Modest Mouse, The The & more...

JOHNNY MARR: Can the Smiths genius, solo at last, out-sprint the shadow of the ’80s greatest band? And what’s the truth about The The and the tomatoes? Plus: tributes by Noel Gallagher, Radiohead, and more.

Q MAGAZINE
qthemusic.com

Finally, not to be outdone, Q Magazine's March 2013 issue put Morrissey (circa 1986-era) photo with the captions "The Ten Greatest Gigs... Of All Time". Then on the lower corner, we also see a modern Johnny Marr answering questions "for cash". Is this a new thing? Do fans send in money to have their heroes answer their questions? And if that's true, why would you ask "What did Morrissey’s teenage bedroom smell like?" Trust me, no one wants to know.

Excerpt of the issue's description:

Q320 March 2013

Plus Johnny Marr, Kraftwerk, Jake Bugg, David Bowie & more

The ten big questions answered by the new issue of Q:
1. What are The Ten Greatest Gigs Of All Time? The Smiths. Oasis. White Stripes. Madonna. Nirvana. U2…
Find out which iconic shows have made the cut – complete with exclusive archive pictures – and have your say… Heated debate guaranteed

3. What did Morrissey’s teenage bedroom smell like?
Johnny Marr answers your Cash For Questions

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Riot grrrl in the strangest places

It's weird, but lately I've come across articles on Bikini Kill and Riot Grrrl stuff in the strangest places! As we have previously mentioned, Bikini Kill celebrated their 20th anniversary last November with their re-issue of their debut EP. I want the re-release, even though I already own the CD of their first two records, but I actually could not figure out how to order from their website (perhaps it's sold out?).

Read More Riot Grrrls Vu and Emily cover early Riot Grrrl bands. This is by no means some definitive guide to Riot Grrrls..…

FRONT MAGAZINE
Gives new meaning to "girls to the front!"

FRONT MAGAZINE #177 is a men/boy's magazine about topless girls in trainers (sneakers). The magazine is like FHM (before they banned nipples), but not as "classy" as MAXIM. The magazine is more like Ralph (Australia) and Loaded (who is the primary rival in the UK). While most magazines have ceased printed editions, it seems that Front is going strong with its "lads' mags" reputation.

Strangely, they published a full article on the Riot Grrrl bands in last month's issue. The four-page article compiles the best-known Riot bands: Bikini Kill, Heavens to Betsy, Sleater-Kinney, Bratmobile, L7, Babes in Toyland, and, of course, Pussy Riot. Personally, I would have added Le Tigre to the mix, considering they added Heavens to Betsy and L7!

Read the article below:

FRONT #177 Page 94 FRONT #177 Page 95 FRONT #177 Page 96 FRONT #177 Page 97

THE VERGE
Meanwhile, a technology news agency called The Verge recently published a Bikini Kill article called Bikini Kill is making things again (published February 1st).

The Verge started when editors at Engadget left because of upper management disputes from AOL. Now they are (bitter?) rivals, but between you and me, I still like Engadget because it's easier to read "blog style". Hey, I just want to load everything in one place without having to click on anything. That's just how I like to read.

Anyway, the Bikini Kill article focused on riot grrrl revolution in the age of Spotify and iTunes, so there is a tech-angle to the whole thing.

The article is best summed up here:

Still, her [Kathleen Hanna] punk rock sensibility doesn’t allow her to write off the open internet: “In one way, I like the idea of everything free and streaming because it seems cooler and more punk rock — but the reality is that then people in bands have to have day jobs to survive, and that might mean they make fewer records or break up altogether.” She also says that she doesn’t know how we could “put the genie back into the bottle,” now that music is simply out there, free to consume.

Photograph: Ebet Roberts/Redferns

THE GUARDIAN
This was published last month (January 2013), it's an article from The Guardian reflecting on the riot grrrl movement in Britain. The article is taken from Melody Maker (remember that music weekly paper?)

You can read it here: There's a riot grrrl going on

Remember, this was written in 1994, so a lot of reference is of its time (like Mecca Normal, k.d. lang, and Catcall).

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Site Update (May 2011)

Assassins of Kings

I am sick. I don't know how it happened, but it's not fun coughing and wheezing. I did manage to do two podcast recording, with Sally and Cristina, which will likely be edited for this week and next week's show.

I also picked up The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, at Walmart, which came with a lot of bonus items like a DVD and Soundtrack (all at the normal cost of a game product). They are on the right track, I definitely feel like you get more value out of it, when this is the 'standard' version of the game. There is a collector's version, which is way too expensive for my blood ($129).

Unfortunately, the game is plagued with problems. Activation was a nightmare (finally got it to work eventually), downloading bonus content wasn't working (it kept saying the code was bad, when in fact, it was the correct code - eventually this worked out), and the game does not work on my Nvidia 7800 SLI. I understand that this card is old, but I can run modern games on it just fine at 1280x720 (which I'm OK with). But seriously, they need to fix some of these bugs... but I don't think they will because their minimal support is Nvidia 8800 card, just a generation above mine. So, right now, it's not recommended if you have an older card.

Since I can't really play it until they patch it, or if Nvidia update their drivers, I might actually go back to the first Witcher game, which I never finished.

The bonus soundtrack is composed by Adam Skorupa & Krzysztof Wierzynkiewicz, and it's what you expect for a gaming soundtrack. The DVD is in Polish, so be prepared to read a lot of subtitles.

I got the latest Spin Magazine in the mail today and it's pretty sweet that they are offering not one, but two, free albums this month. Like I've previously mentioned, it's free for all US residents. You can grab them at spin.com/itunes (expires June 30^th) and spin.com/itunes-lolla (expires Aug 31^st), what a good deal! Especially for Sleater-Kinney and Isobell Campbell.

While you're enjoying the free music, you can consider subscribing the magazine. For one year, it's $9.95. I do recommend the print version, you get more content for the buck, and I've always been a fan of glossy magazines vs digital ones.

Not to say that the iPad digital version doesn't have a lot going for it, but it just seems like the iPad version is more or less about pictures and very, very few words. The only advantage you have on the digital Spin Magazine is that you can stream the month's soundtrack, and "breaking" news is constantly flowing. I actually turned off auto-renewal for the Spin digital magazine, but I am definitely keeping my print subscription.

That's not all, for late April and this month (May), you can purchase a 2-disc special Spin Magazine "Must-Hear Music" edition, available only at Target stores. For the price of the magazine $4.99, you get two 16-track bonus CDs, featuring Mumford & Sons (they are on the current cover), and The Strokes (they were on last month's cover).

The full CD track listings are:

Disc 1 1. Two Door Cinema Club - What You Know 2. Matt & Kim - Block After Block 3. Saigon - Bring Me Down 4. Royal Bangs - Grass Helmet 5. Innerpartysystem - American Trash 6. A Day To Remember - Better Off This Way 7. Funeral Party - Finale 8. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Monkeys Are Coming 9. Baroness - Swollen & Halo 10. Kopek - Cocaine Chest Pains 11. Trampled By Turtles - Wait So Long 12. Meat Puppets - Damn Thing 13. Juke Kartel - Bullet Wearing Trademark Clothes 14.Bear Hands - Crime Pays 15.Foster the People - Helena Beat 16.Go Radio - Any Other Heart		Disc 2 1.Cage The Elephant - Shake me Down 2.She Wants Revenge - Must Be The One 3. Peter Bjorn & John - Breaker Breaker 4. Red - Feed The Machine 5.Emmure - Solar Flare Homicide 6. Flogging Molly - Don't Shut 'Em Down 7.Old 97's - The Grand Theatre 8. Aiden - Hysteria 9.Royal Bangs - Fireball 10.AWOLNATION - Sail 11.OTEP - Fists Fall 12.Steve Earle - Waitin' On The Sky 13.No Justice - 2nd Avenue 14.Acrylics - Nightwatch 15.Computer Magic - Running 16.New Politics - Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

Update: Here is a picture of the Spin Target Edition next to my iPad with the Spin digital issue. As you can the see the Target Edition is a smaller print, you can find the issue at the music/CD area, not magazine area.

Lastly, The Hype Machine (hypem.com) is a very popular blog music indexer. We were lucky enough to have been featured on their iPhone Application. As a result, we're getting a ton of mobile traffic, and suddenly the song we posted by Scattered Trees climbed up the Hype Machine's Twitter Chart. I think by the time you read this, it would've dropped off the charts, but here's a screen capture (see picture).

Details of the application below:

>>>
Hundreds of Stations Included

• LATEST: freshest music posted from music blogs
• POPULAR: a collection of the most popular music on blogs
• RADIO SHOW: monthly highlights of music + bloggers
• GENRE STATIONS: latest music from blogs filtered by genre
• BLOG DIRECTORY: featuring every blog from our directory
• MY MIX: a mix of music from blogs you watch
• MY FRIENDS: what your social music circle is loving

Gorgeous Playing Experience
Enjoy artwork and the ability to read each blog post behind the music directly within the app. Includes every blog in our Music Blog Directory as its own radio station. Don't know where to start? Browse music by genres like acoustic, british, dance, electro, experimental, indie pop, psychedelic, shoegaze and more.

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W♥M082: Britpop Magazines

W♥M082 [download (48min, 46mb)]

 

Radiohead - Palo Alto

Overall, this is one of our better Britpop show, our tenth show on this sub-topic within the W♥M Radio shows.

The show is split into two topics: News and upcoming events with Britpop.com.au. They are currently running a "The Songs that Saved Your Life" Best B-Side contest. You can apparently win chips & records.

Select Magazine (April 1993)

The second part of the show is all about British magazines. We touch on some of these: Select Magazine, Q Magazine, Vox, NME, Melody Maker, The Face, Word, Uncut Magazine, Mojo, and a few other music-focused magazine. Most of these magazines are monthlies, with the exception of the weekly NME and MM - although eventually MM was shut down by IPC (the UK's largest magazine company, currently owned by Time-Warner).

As for the future of magazines, I was just at the shop today and "big" magazines costs $29 - as much as a softcover book. Surprisingly, the price of the latest Mojo magazine is relatively "cheap" for $9 and comes with a free CD. Looking at my old 1991 magazines, the average prices for those were $3, compared to today's cost of $10 or more.

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W♥M058: Q Magazine's Britpop Quiz

W♥M058 (53 mins)

 

Me Me Me - Hanging Around

Recorded in the same session as Britpop Top Ten Countdown (which I still consider the best show ever), this super hard quiz was written by some hardcore journalist at Q Magazine, published in a paperback book called Q Quiz Book. The book is free, along with Q Greatest Rock & Pop Miscellany Book, as bonuses for an annual subscription. I got the book via one of their magazine off the stand.

Some questions are dubious, as far as Britpop is concern, like The Verve question... but overall one of the better quiz out there.

The later part of the show, we talk a bit about The Abercrombie Hotel closing down, Pavement, and Empire of the Sun.

Also, don't forget to see DJ Sal in Sydney at britpop.com.au.

Below are the questions and answers.

Q Quiz				Answer				Points
01 From which London suburb did The Bluetones hail?				Hounslow				0
02 What was the Boo Radley's debut album called?				Ichabod and I (1990)				0
03 What was the name of Elastica's long-delayed second album?				The Menace (2000)				1
04 What was Pulp's original name?				Abacus Pulp				1.5
05 What was the name of the band fronted by Danny Goffrey's wife Pearl?				Powder				1
06 What was the name of Sleeper's first Top 10 single?				"Sale of the Century"				0.5
07 Who replaced Bernard Butler on Suede?				Richard Oakes				1.5
08 What were Blur originally known as?				Seymour				1
09 Which Ocean Colour Scene song was the theme music on Chris Evans's TV show TFI Friday?				"The Riverboat Song"				1
10 Which Britpop supergroup featured both Blur's Alex James and Justine Frischmann Justin Welch from Elastica?				Me Me Me				1.5
11 How many Brit Awards did the Verve take home in 1998?				3				0
12 In which year was Pulp's first Peel Session?				1981				1
13 What was the name of Echobelly's singer?				Sonya Madan				0
14 Which Britpop frontman had his shoes stolen by muggers in 1997?				Rick Witter				0
15 Which member of John Power's band Cast also performed with Shack?				Peter Wilkinson				0
16 One of the follow was not a member of Kula Shaker. Which one? a) Alonza Bevan b) Jay Darlington c) Steve Peck d) Paul Winterhart				C				0
17 Who was the singer of the Seahorses, John Squire's post-Stone Roses outfit?				Chris Helme				0
18 Which member of Dodgy went out with Denise Van Outen?				Andy Miller				0
19 In 1995, with Britpop at its zenith, which three acts headlined the Reading Festival?				Smashing Pumpkins, Bjork, and Neil Diamond				0
20 What item of furniture played a prominent role in the video to Supergrass's Alright?				bed				1
21 What was Marion frontman Jaime Harding convicted of stealing in 2000?				a garden gnome				0
22 Which Britpop outfit were the first to appear on Top of the Pops without releasing a record?				[email protected]				0
23 How many Top 5 UK albums did Space manage?				2				1
24 Gene's 1994 debut single For the Dead came in a limited run of how many?				1994				0
25 Which former member of Pulp now runs a ceramics shop?				Nick Banks				1
Bonus Questions
26 The infamous "Battle of Britpop" - name the two singles by Oasis and Blur that went head to head that same week. Bonus point: Who won in term of most singles sold.				"Roll With It" vs "Country House"; Blur won the battle (but Oasis won the war).				1.5
27 Elastica stole the guitar riff of "Connection" from what 70s punk band? Bonus point: name the song.				Wire; "Three Girl Rhumba"				0
28 Name Blur's bassist Alex James' unusual hobby?				Cheese lover				1
29 Before Kanye's "I'll let you finish" upstage, which Britpop maverick danced his way on stage during Michael Jackson's performance of an award show. Bonus point: name the award show.				Jarvis Cocker; The Brit Award				1.5
30 Name the lead singers of (1) Oasis, (2) Blur, (3) Pulp, (4) Suede, (5) Sleeper, and (6) Elastica.				Liam Gallagher, Damon Albarn, Jarvis Cocker, Brett Anderson, Louise Wener, and Justine Frischmann				3

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Uncut Magazine Presents New David Bowie Tribute Album

Ed Kuepper - The Man Who Sold the World Ed Kuepper Magazine Uncut Magazine (June 2008) Read More David Bowie http://weheartmus... David Bowie is one of those musicians that came slightly before my time. I remember seeing "Let's...

Blondie - Heroes The Last Town Chorus - Modern Love

Uncut Magazine must really love David Bowie. This is the second CD they put together featuring cover songs of some of Bowie's greatest songs. The first Bowie cover collection (Starman: Rare and Exclusive Version of 18 Classic David Bowie Songs) were from their March 2003 issue.

Most of songs on the new CD, Rebel Rebel - A Tribute to David Bowie (available free on their June 2008 issue of Uncut Magazine) were studio recording and most have appeared elsewhere. Some live recording, such as Mott The Hoople, didn't sound that good to me.

I haven't had the chance to read the David Bowie article, but flipping through it, it seems to be quotes from famous and modern musicians talking about 30 of David Bowie's greatest songs.

As of this writing, I'm too lazy to find out where each song previously appeared in, but I did noticed that they used The Last Town Chorus' version of "Modern Love" on this album.

01. Rebel Rebel	Sigue Sigue Sputnik	sputnikworld.com
02. Sound and Vision	Sound of Vision	myspace.com
03. Heroes	King Crimson	wikipedia.org
04. Modern Love	The Last Town Chorus	thelasttownchorus.com
05. The Bewlay Brothers	John Howard	kidinabigworld.co.uk
06. The Man Who Sold the World	Ed Kuepper	myspace.com
07. Kooks	Brett Smiley	myspace.com
08. Moonage Daydream	LA Gun	myspace.com
09. Queen Bitch	eater	allmusic.com
10. All the Young Dudes	Mott The Hoople	hunter-mott.com
11. Heroes	Nico	wikipedia.org
12. Memory of a Free Festival	Mercury Rev	mercuryrev.com

 

Links: www.uncut.co.uk www.davidbowie.com

Rolling Stone Magazine #897 (June 2002)

What's in this issue:

• The Nirvana Wars (6 pages)
• Girls Gone Wild
• Mixican Heat (Fashion)
• Q&A With Elvis Costello
• Supreme Court vs Teens
• Layne Staley article
• Video Game Summer

 

 

RollingStone #897 (June 2002)

Continuing on with my magazine coverage, we have the biggest US "music" magazine: Rolling Stone.

Although the magazine had its origin in news and music, they're actually more interested in movie stars and pop culture than music. Of all the major music magazine publishers out there, I have never liked RS.

So why do I have this issue you ask? Well, my brother had a free subscription for a year, so I ended up adding the magazine to my collection (since he never read it).

 

The main story that I'll be talking about is the Courtney Love vs the former Nirvana band members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic. I remember really hating Love (haha) after reading this article.

 

 

Nirvana - You Know You're Right

Nirvana

After Cobain's suicide in 1994, there was a long legal battle over the rights and management of Nirvana's music. Love contests that Cobain only shared the royalties out of kindness and she wanted full control of the Nirvana empire.

The real losers in this court battle are the fans, who haven't heard anything new since In Utero, which was released in 1993.

It should be noted that shortly after the Rolling Stone article that Love and surviving Nirvana members settled out of court and a few months later the greatest hits Nirvana album was released. Included in this album was the final Nirvana studio recording of "You Know You're Right".

Since then, a Nirvana boxset appeared: With the Lights Out (Nov 2004) (selections from this boxset was released under the title Sliver: The Best of the Box in Nov 2005).

 July 26, 2007 8:29 PM  vu my♥posts [email protected] interscope.com/nirvana

Bouche wrote: Jul 26, 2007 8:57 PM

[this is good] I subscribed to RS about 16 years ago. The most important feature was the articles concerning bands I liked and the CD reviews... Then along the way I think I developed a palate too eclectic and obscure than what they offered. I started djing in college and discovered CMJ magazine ... What isn't loveable about a music magazine that comes with a CD sampler? Whenever I bought it, it was like winning the lottery. Not only did I get tracks from bands I liked, but also from ones I never knew I liked... It were those CDs that made getting a music magazine exciting and what makes your posts a pleasure to read. It's great to have an offering of favorites others have found! that I might have missed. Thanks for all your work!

And I remember the first time I heard Smells like Teen Spirit. It was during the short period MTV actually played music... Most likely on 120 minutes. Strange how these services that were constructed around a love for 'music' seemingly abandoned it in favor of money. Not that money's a bad thing... But screwing a loyal viewer/subscriber base? That's not so good.

The Volume Series (1991-1997)

 

 

Tricky - You Don't

Tricky

 

Shown here, interior to Volume 6

The Volume CD series is probably best described as a magazine with a CD soundtrack. They were published from September 1991 to January 1997, ending at a special 2-disc Volume 17. Since they are published in the UK, it was generally really expensive to get them on import (it's not uncommon to find them new at $20 to $30). What makes them special (besides the cool booklet feature), is that the tracks are usually demos, alternate version, or remixes, exclusively on Volume.

Although the series started off as mostly British indie rock, it was clear that music in England had started to branch off to two distinctive sounds: Britpop and Trance/Techno dance. So Trance Europe Express was made in September 1993. It was so successful, it was followed up by three sequels, plus Trance Atlantic, TEXTure (remixes compilation), and Wasted.

I was surprised to find Wasted at Amoeba for $2.95. This is a two-disc (30 songs) that was kind of the techno answer to their Britpop compilation, Sharks Patrol These Waters.

This song I have chosen is Tricky's "You Don't" (sung by Martine). It originally appeared in Volume 10.

Trivia: Tricky appeared as a henchman to Gary Oldman's character in the movie "The Fifth Element" (1997).

vu